Got my work cut out for me this weekend. Running power, water and Ethernet. When I built the house, I buried a 2" electrical conduit and a 1" PVC dummy waterline under my carport skirt for future shop. I didn't know at the time that my water would be chocked full of brown metal tasting iron. I tapped that line to be chicken pen/garden water during covid when I was stuck at home a few years ago. It ties in to my main line off the well and has hella pressure, so I'm not repurposing it. I'm running 2/0-2/0-1-4 mhf through the electrical conduit, 3/4" PEX to two new freeze proof hydrants off the PVC line. Then running a new 3/4 PEX (good iron free water) and direct burial cat6 in a separate trench from the other end of the house this weekend. Im a cheap ass so I'm only renting a trencher once. Gotta get it all in at once. My dad is a hard core note taker, every time we bury a line at work he has us pull a tape and triangulate every elbow or any kind of change. It pays off. I do the same now and was able to locate all my buried pipes right away. Digging here is a dream, I have found maybe 3 rocks in the 5yrs I've been here. Growing up 5 miles away near a river and digging through nothing but clay and river rock has made me really appreciate this beautiful sandy loam I live on.
